Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Strong, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.339, Library of America

• The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Men, Fundraising

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.746, Library of America

• How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Dream, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.276, Penguin

• Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Dream, Easter

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.88, Library of America

• Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Death, Dream

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 1 - 2 (1838)

• As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Sea, Legends

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.131

• Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
  Life is but an empty dream!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Dream, Numbers

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 1 - 2 (1838)

• Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream, Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Sleep, Let Me

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “Poems. New, complete ed”, p.343

• Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Dream, Illusion

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.18, Wildside Press LLC

• Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,-- The wounded from the battle-plain, In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Wall, Pain

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.283

• One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Sweat, Half

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “Hyperion, and Kavanagh”, p.16

• Youth, hope, and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Past, And Love

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

• Think of your woods and orchards without birds! Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams As in an idiot's brain remembered words Hang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Thinking, Bird

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.743, Delphi Classics

• Life like an empty dream flits by.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Empty

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1845). “The Poets and Poetry of Europe: With Introductions and Biographical Notices”, p.656

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